Comments on: Did You Know enums Can Define Their Own Methods?

By: Named Integers in C# aka Typedef « c# to javascript, actionscript

Named Integers in C# aka Typedef « c# to javascript, actionscript — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:35:43 +0000

[...] old typedef. An enum can inherit from any integer. See the recent discussion here. While reading this article stateing java enums can define methods for enums I thought C# could use extension methods for that. Enums can reference a value not [...]

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:42:26 +0000

Mike,

Excellent example — when I was writing this I noticed I started to spend more time trying to think of a good example instead of actually writing the tutorial — so I opted for the non-sensical example just to get the data bits out.

I could see something like a pretty-printing toString being helpful as well.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:22:27 +0000

I have a ton of enums with ids. I wrote a validate method that validates that none of the ids have been duplicated. I also have a getter method that takes the id and finds the value with the given id.

By: Caligula

Caligula — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:44:10 +0000

Yeah, been using them since enums. Who doesn’t know you can use any logical expression in a for-loop? Citation needed. Whether or not it’s more readable than just breaking out of the loop is a different topic.